August 2025 marks the one-year anniversary of looking up and saying “man, Colt Keith has been on one lately!”, and then moving on for one reason or another. To celebrate, I looked up Keith’s stats and went “wow, Keith has really been on one lately!”, because as impressive as his summer-surge was last year, this year’s is even better. More importantly, there’s some key changes that make it feel stickier, too, helping us pencil him in for a far too early “best supporting actor” award come 2026.
Firstly, the season stats. They’re fine. A .261/.340/.428/.768 slashline is good! So is a 114 wRC+ and 1.7 WAR in part time play. Considering that nearly 73% of all innings pitched this year have come from righty pitchers, his platoon problem isn’t even that notable. He could never bat against a left